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Safe exercise during pregnancy
The latest guidelines on Exercise during Pregnancy For many new mum’s to be, exercise during pregnancy can be daunting with so much conflicting information about what is safe. Recent guidance has cleared things up to make it easier to stay active during your pregnancy. The UK Chief Medical Officers guidance recommends that pregnant women with…
5 Ways to improve posture and prevent pain when working from home
Have you had back and neck pain, headaches or shoulder stiffness, since you started working from home? Here are 5 top physio tips on working from home. As the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic has been keeping us at home, a lot of us were forced to find solutions and strategies to work from our houses.…
Do you have Temporomandibular disorder TMD? Jaw Pain?
Do you suffer from pain in and around the jaw? Is your jaw clicking while eating? Do you tend to grind or clench your teeth? Do you find it difficult to fully open or close your mouth? This may be due to Temporomandibular disorder TMD which can also cause headaches, ear pain, tinnitus and Neck…
Trigger Points Dry Needling
Trigger Points Dry Needling is a treatment technique using fine needles inserted into painful knots in muscles to help decrease pain, improve mobility and function. Muscle tension and spasms are common with conditions as muscle strain and injuries, tension-headaches, lower back pain and osteo arthritis. What is a Myofascial Trigger Point? Myofascial Trigger Points MTrPs are…
10 Things You Need To Know About Your Back
Check out this very interesting campaign by the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy giving new guidance on how to manage and prevent lower back pain. “10 Things You Need To Know About Your Back” . Your back is stronger than you may think You rarely need a scan and it can do more harm than good…
Osteopathy for mums-to-be and beyond
Osteopathy can help mums-to-be, new mums and babies before, during and far beyond birth. Benefit of Osteopathy during pregnancy During pregnancy, a woman’s body goes through tremendous changes. The posture adapts with the growing foetus and increased weight. The release of the pregnancy hormone Relaxin softens the ligaments and tissues which can lead to…
Beware of tennis elbow !
Wimbledon is around the corner so dust off the tennis racquets, but beware of tennis elbow! Tennis elbow is a painful condition that is characterised by localised pain over the bony prominence on the outside of the elbow. It is caused by a strain to tendons of the extensors muscles of the wrist (extensor…